COSMETIC APPLIANCE AND METHOD OF USE

• US 20090111357A1
• Filed: 01/02/2009
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Denise Horton
• Original Assignee: Denise Horton
• Inventors: Horton, Denise
• Granted Patent: US 7,806,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 450/81
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/7007 Drug-containing films, membranes or sheets A61K9/0041, A61K9/0043, A61K9/006, A61K9/0063 take precedence

Abstract

A cosmetic appliance and method of use for temporarily lifting, supporting or smoothing the skin of selected areas of a user'"'"'s body, including the eyebrows, eyelids, throat, neck, breasts and other areas, and which is not readily apparent once applied, formed in predetermined shapes from thin, generally translucent flexible sheeting to one side of which adhesive has been applied and covered with a peel-away layer.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. (canceled)

3. (canceled)

4. A method of lifting a human breast and holding the breast in an elevated position comprising:

providing a flexible sheet made of translucent material, cut into a pre-determined shape and having an adhesive on one side of the sheet to form an adhesive surface having a first portion and a remaining portion;

applying the first portion of the adhesive surface of the sheet to skin of the upper surface of the breast adjacent the breast areola to adhere the first portion of the adhesive side of the sheet to the breast;

moving the sheet upwardly and/or rearwardly to lift the sheet and the breast to an elevated position; and

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applying the remaining portion of the adhesive surface of the sheet to the skin of the upper surface of the breast to adhere the sheet to the skin of the upper surface of the breast and to hold the breast in the elevated position.

5. The method of claim 4 including the step of providing a peel-away layer covering the adhesive surface.

6. The method of claim 5 including removing the peel-away layer from the adhesive surface prior to applying the first portion of the adhesive surface to the skin of the upper surface of the breast.

7. The method of claim 5 including removing a portion of the peel-away layer from the adhesive surface prior to applying the first portion of the adhesive surface to the skin of the upper surface of the breast.

8. A human breast lifting appliance comprising:

a two-sided sheet made of a translucent material, having a pre-determined shape and having an adhesive applied to one side of the two-sided sheet;

a peel-away layer of material covering the adhesive;

the sheet adapted to cover a portion of the upper surface of the breast;

the pre-determined shape including a first, relatively large periphery and a second, relatively small periphery; and

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the relatively small periphery being semi-circular with a radius of from about 0.5 inch to about 1.5 inches.

9. A temporarily lifted and skin-smoothed human breast comprising:

a human breast having a top surface and a sheet made of a translucent material adhered to the top surface of the breast;

the sheet temporarily maintaining, when the human is standing or sitting upright, the breast at a lifted position that is higher than a position of the breast prior to adhering the sheet to the top surface of the breast, and,

the sheet temporarily maintaining skin of the top surface of the breast in a condition relatively smoother than the condition of the skin of the top surface of the breast prior to adhering the sheet to the top surface of the breast.